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authorChangbin Du <changbin.du@gmail.com>2020-08-08 10:31:29 +0800
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2020-08-14 08:59:16 -0300
commit5b34747238686021a39495f7ae0bfadc27fe3e83 (patch)
tree24c6dd5cd04542cc5ab1e0f301557661fad4ae76 /tools/perf/Documentation
parent81523c1e579bb95106e22b864fbef687d585f2b9 (diff)
perf ftrace: Add option '--inherit' to trace children processes
This adds an option '--inherit' to allow us trace children processes spawned by our target. Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@gmail.com> Acked-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Link: http://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200808023141.14227-7-changbin.du@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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diff --git a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-ftrace.txt b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-ftrace.txt
index 7a5d915f60b0..c46d0a09b38c 100644
--- a/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-ftrace.txt
+++ b/tools/perf/Documentation/perf-ftrace.txt
@@ -58,6 +58,9 @@ OPTIONS
Set the size of per-cpu tracing buffer, <size> is expected to
be a number with appended unit character - B/K/M/G.
+--inherit::
+ Trace children processes spawned by our target.
+
-T::
--trace-funcs=::
Select function tracer and set function filter on the given